Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys celebrates his 80th birthday today (June 20th)!!! Wilson co-founded the group in 1961 with his late brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson, his cousin Mike Love, neighbor David Marks, and high school buddy Al Jardine. It was Wilson's genius for arranging intricate harmonies that first set him apart from his peers, an ability made even more impressive because he is 97 percent deaf in his right ear. He is the sole-surviving member of his immediate family, with his father Murry dying in 1973, his brothers Dennis and Carl dying in 1983 and 1998, respectively, and his mother Audree passing on in 1997. Between 1962 and 1967 Wilson produced a total of 22 Top 40 hits, including the group's classics "Surfin' U.S.A," "In My Room," "Little Deuce Coupe," "Surfer Girl," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Don't Worry Baby," "I Get Around," "Help Me, Rhonda," "California Girls," "Barbara Ann," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "Good Vibrations," and many more. Brian Wilson -- along with fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin -- is currently on the road with Chicago and performs tonight (June 20th) in Kansas City, Missouri at the Starlight Theater. Just released is the Beach Boys' deluxe edition of their 2003 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys collection. The set has now been expanded to include two additional discs boasting 50 additional tracks -- many of which have been completely remixed and/or featured in stereo mixes for the first time. Additionally, all 30 songs on Disc One of Sounds Of Summer have been mixed in immersive Dolby Atmos. Last November saw the release of Brian Wilson's his latest solo album, At My Piano, featuring instrumental takes from his catalogue of classics. Now streaming is recent documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, which premiered at New York's prestigious Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews. The film was directed by Brent Wilson -- no relation -- and features Brian Wilson talking at length with Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, with appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, late-Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Jakob Dylan, Bob Gaudio, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James, among others. The title of the movie comes from the Beach Boys' 1971 track "Long Promised Road," which was written by Wilson's youngest brother Carl Wilson, and was re-recorded by Wilson for the new film. Released last summer was the long-awaited Beach Boys box set, Feel Flows - The Sunflower And Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971. The collection, assembled by producers Mark Linett and Alan Boyd with the help of Brother Records consultant Howie Edelson, features newly remastered versions of 1970's Sunflower set and its 1971 followup, Surf's Up. Linett & Boyd are best known for their Grammy Award winning work on the Beach Boys' 2011 box set, The Smile Sessions, which took home the prize for Best Historical Album. Feel Flows includes a whopping 135 tracks, including 108 previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, radio promos, alternate versions, alternate mixes, isolated backing tracks and a cappella versions, culled from the album sessions -- including the majority of the late-Dennis Wilson's unfinished 1971 solo set, tentatively titled, Poops/Hubba Hubba. Howie Edelson provides the new liner notes, which features new and exclusive interviews with the living Beach Boys -- Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston -- along with archival quotes from the band's late-co-founders, Dennis and Carl Wilson, along with others involved with the band during the 1969-1971 period. Also out now is Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology, which features 18 songs -- including two previously unreleased tracks -- "Run James Run" and "Some Sweet Day." In April 2015, Brian Wilson released his 11th solo studio album, No Pier Pressure. Among the key players on the album are Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, and David Marks -- along with such modern stars as Kacey Musgraves, fun.'s Nate Ruess, She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Peter Hollens, and Capital Cities' Sebu Simonian. No Pier Pressure reunited Wilson with producer Joe Thomas, who was behind the boards with Wilson for the Beach Boys' 2012 Top Three reunion album, That's Why God Made The Radio. Brian Wilson scored an Original Song Golden Globe nomination for "One Kind Of Love" -- the theme to his 2015 biopic, Love And Mercy. In addition to Wilson, Love And Mercy was also saluted with actor Paul Dano, who portrayed Wilson as a younger man in the film, snagging the nomination for Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture. Both awards went to other nominees. In October 2016, Brian Wilson published I Am Brian Wilson, his second official autobiography through Da Capo Press. This isn't the first time that Wilson's name has appeared on an "autobiography" -- back in 1991 the heavily ghost-written Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story triggered a flurry of lawsuits from his family and Beach Boys bandmates. First cousin and primary Beach Boys lyricist Mike Love says that the hit-making team of him and Brian Wilson would often begin with Wilson only needing help with parts of songs before flowing into a full on collaboration: "I remember so many instances where Brian and I would get together and do some songs. He would be stuck for lyrics and I'd come up with a concept or lyrics. . . So that's what works, is Brian Wilson and Mike Love together." What makes the achievement of Brian Wilson' s work even more spectacular is the fact that he pushed the boundaries of symphonic rock -- working with over a dozen different instruments at a time -- despite his deafness, rendering him unable to understand or hear true stereo: "The advantage of having one ear is you hear everything through one source -- mono. And that goes to your brain, so your brain hears one source of sound. The downside is that you don't get to hear the depth and the beauty of the two-ear thing." Al Jardine first bonded with Wilson while the pair was playing high school football for the Hawthorne Cougars. Jardine remembers being amazed by Wilson's athletic ability: "He was a great athlete. He could throw the ball a mile! He had the best spiral. He was the same way in baseball. He was just a very athletic person." In 1976, brother Dennis Wilson recalled the scene around Brian's metal and emotional decline during the latter half of the 1960's: "I would go to his house daily and beg, 'What can I do to help you?' Forget recording. Forget all of it. It got to Brian's health. And then, as the Beach Boys were slowly slipping away, y'know, we're at home trying to take care of our brother." Producer Don Was has produced both Brian Wilson on his own and with the Beach Boys. He also directed the riveting 1995 documentary on Wilson, called, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, named after Wilson's 1966 classic from Pet Sounds. Was remains as impressed today as he ever was Wilson: "The sum total of my experience with him is that as an artist, he's, y'know, without peer. He's got a unique vision of music that's had an enormous impact on the vocabulary of rock n' roll. And on a personal level, the guy, he's a man of steel, y'know? I mean, he's got incredible strength, he's overcome some really severe obstacles that have been tossed in his way, and really survived." Wilson's oldest daughter, Carnie Wilson, told us she's happy her dad has found an even balance between his personal and professional life: "I'm just so happy for him right now. He's just been through so much, and he's at this place, now after doing Smile, he's just really like sitting back going, 'Y'know what? God, I made some really cool records, and now the important th